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<title>fs: dlm: parallelize lowcomms socket handling</title>
<updated>2022-11-21T15:45:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Aring</name>
<email>aahringo@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2022-11-17T22:11:57+00:00</published>
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This patch is rework of lowcomms handling, the main goal was here to
handle recvmsg() and sendpage() to run parallel. Parallel in two senses:
1. per connection and 2. that recvmsg()/sendpage() doesn't block each
other.

Currently recvmsg()/sendpage() cannot run parallel because two
workqueues "dlm_recv" and "dlm_send" are ordered workqueues. That means
only one work item can be executed. The amount of queue items will be
increased about the amount of nodes being inside the cluster. The current
two workqueues for sending and receiving can also block each other if the
same connection is executed at the same time in dlm_recv and dlm_send
workqueue because a per connection mutex for the socket handling.

To make it more parallel we introduce one "dlm_io" workqueue which is
not an ordered workqueue, the amount of workers are not limited. Due
per connection flags SEND/RECV pending we schedule workers ordered per
connection and per send and receive task. To get rid of the mutex
blocking same workers to do socket handling we switched to a semaphore
which handles socket operations as read lock and sock releases as write
operations, to prevent sock_release() being called while the socket is
being used.

There might be more optimization removing the semaphore and replacing it
with other synchronization mechanism, however due other circumstances
e.g. othercon behaviour it seems complicated to doing this change. I
added comments to remove the othercon handling and moving to a different
synchronization mechanism as this is done. We need to do that to the next
dlm major version upgrade because it is not backwards compatible with the
current connect mechanism.

The processing of dlm messages need to be still handled by a ordered
workqueue. An dlm_process ordered workqueue was introduced which gets
filled by the receive worker. This is probably the next bottleneck of
DLM but the application can't currently parse dlm messages parallel. A
comment was introduced to lift the workqueue context of dlm processing
in a non-sleepable softirq to get messages processing done fast.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
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This patch is rework of lowcomms handling, the main goal was here to
handle recvmsg() and sendpage() to run parallel. Parallel in two senses:
1. per connection and 2. that recvmsg()/sendpage() doesn't block each
other.

Currently recvmsg()/sendpage() cannot run parallel because two
workqueues "dlm_recv" and "dlm_send" are ordered workqueues. That means
only one work item can be executed. The amount of queue items will be
increased about the amount of nodes being inside the cluster. The current
two workqueues for sending and receiving can also block each other if the
same connection is executed at the same time in dlm_recv and dlm_send
workqueue because a per connection mutex for the socket handling.

To make it more parallel we introduce one "dlm_io" workqueue which is
not an ordered workqueue, the amount of workers are not limited. Due
per connection flags SEND/RECV pending we schedule workers ordered per
connection and per send and receive task. To get rid of the mutex
blocking same workers to do socket handling we switched to a semaphore
which handles socket operations as read lock and sock releases as write
operations, to prevent sock_release() being called while the socket is
being used.

There might be more optimization removing the semaphore and replacing it
with other synchronization mechanism, however due other circumstances
e.g. othercon behaviour it seems complicated to doing this change. I
added comments to remove the othercon handling and moving to a different
synchronization mechanism as this is done. We need to do that to the next
dlm major version upgrade because it is not backwards compatible with the
current connect mechanism.

The processing of dlm messages need to be still handled by a ordered
workqueue. An dlm_process ordered workqueue was introduced which gets
filled by the receive worker. This is probably the next bottleneck of
DLM but the application can't currently parse dlm messages parallel. A
comment was introduced to lift the workqueue context of dlm processing
in a non-sleepable softirq to get messages processing done fast.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: dlm: remove socket shutdown handling</title>
<updated>2022-11-21T15:45:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Aring</name>
<email>aahringo@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-17T22:11:50+00:00</published>
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Since commit 489d8e559c65 ("fs: dlm: add reliable connection if
reconnect") we have functionality like TCP offers for half-closed
sockets on dlm application protocol layer. This feature is required
because the cluster manager events about leaving resource memberships
can be locally already occurred but other cluster nodes having a pending
leaving membership over the cluster manager protocol happening. In this
time the local dlm node already shutdown it's connection and don't
transmit anymore any new dlm messages, but however it still needs to be
able to accept dlm messages because the pending leave membership request
of the cluster manager protocol which the dlm kernel implementation has
no control about it.

We have this functionality on the application for two reasons, the main
reason is that SCTP does not support such functionality on socket
layer. But we can do it inside application layer.

Another small issue is that this feature is broken in the TCP world
because some NAT devices does not implement such functionality
correctly. This is the same reason why the reliable connection session
layer in DLM exists. We give up on middle devices in the networking
which sends e.g. TCP resets out. In DLM we cannot have any message
dropping and we ensure it over a session layer that it can't happen.

Back to the half-closed grace shutdown handling. It's not necessary
anymore to do it on socket layer (which is only support for TCP sockets)
because we do it on application layer. This patch removes this handling,
if there are still issues then we have a problem on the application
layer for such handling.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
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Since commit 489d8e559c65 ("fs: dlm: add reliable connection if
reconnect") we have functionality like TCP offers for half-closed
sockets on dlm application protocol layer. This feature is required
because the cluster manager events about leaving resource memberships
can be locally already occurred but other cluster nodes having a pending
leaving membership over the cluster manager protocol happening. In this
time the local dlm node already shutdown it's connection and don't
transmit anymore any new dlm messages, but however it still needs to be
able to accept dlm messages because the pending leave membership request
of the cluster manager protocol which the dlm kernel implementation has
no control about it.

We have this functionality on the application for two reasons, the main
reason is that SCTP does not support such functionality on socket
layer. But we can do it inside application layer.

Another small issue is that this feature is broken in the TCP world
because some NAT devices does not implement such functionality
correctly. This is the same reason why the reliable connection session
layer in DLM exists. We give up on middle devices in the networking
which sends e.g. TCP resets out. In DLM we cannot have any message
dropping and we ensure it over a session layer that it can't happen.

Back to the half-closed grace shutdown handling. It's not necessary
anymore to do it on socket layer (which is only support for TCP sockets)
because we do it on application layer. This patch removes this handling,
if there are still issues then we have a problem on the application
layer for such handling.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: dlm: add midcomms init/start functions</title>
<updated>2022-11-21T15:45:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Aring</name>
<email>aahringo@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-17T22:11:46+00:00</published>
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This patch introduces leftovers of init, start, stop and exit
functionality. The dlm application layer should always call the midcomms
layer which getting aware of such event and redirect it to the lowcomms
layer. Some functionality which is currently handled inside the start
functionality of midcomms and lowcomms should be handled in the init
functionality as it only need to be initialized once when dlm is loaded.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
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This patch introduces leftovers of init, start, stop and exit
functionality. The dlm application layer should always call the midcomms
layer which getting aware of such event and redirect it to the lowcomms
layer. Some functionality which is currently handled inside the start
functionality of midcomms and lowcomms should be handled in the init
functionality as it only need to be initialized once when dlm is loaded.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: dlm: add dst nodeid for msg tracing</title>
<updated>2022-11-21T15:45:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Aring</name>
<email>aahringo@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-17T22:11:45+00:00</published>
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In DLM when we send a dlm message it is easy to add the lock resource
name, but additional lookup is required when to trace the receive
message side. The idea here is to move the lookup work to the user by
using a lookup to find the right send message with recv message. As note
DLM can't drop any message which is guaranteed by a special session
layer.

For doing the lookup a 3 tupel is required as an unique identification
which is dst nodeid, src nodeid and sequence number. This patch adds the
destination nodeid to the dlm message trace points. The source nodeid is
given by the h_nodeid field inside the header.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
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In DLM when we send a dlm message it is easy to add the lock resource
name, but additional lookup is required when to trace the receive
message side. The idea here is to move the lookup work to the user by
using a lookup to find the right send message with recv message. As note
DLM can't drop any message which is guaranteed by a special session
layer.

For doing the lookup a 3 tupel is required as an unique identification
which is dst nodeid, src nodeid and sequence number. This patch adds the
destination nodeid to the dlm message trace points. The source nodeid is
given by the h_nodeid field inside the header.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: dlm: use WARN_ON_ONCE() instead of WARN_ON()</title>
<updated>2022-11-08T18:59:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Aring</name>
<email>aahringo@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-27T20:45:27+00:00</published>
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To not get the console spammed about WARN_ON() of invalid states in the
dlm midcomms hot path handling we switch to WARN_ON_ONCE() to get it
only once that there might be an issue with the midcomms state handling.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
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To not get the console spammed about WARN_ON() of invalid states in the
dlm midcomms hot path handling we switch to WARN_ON_ONCE() to get it
only once that there might be an issue with the midcomms state handling.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: dlm: allow different allocation context per _create_message</title>
<updated>2022-11-08T18:59:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Aring</name>
<email>aahringo@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-27T20:45:22+00:00</published>
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This patch allows to give the use control about the allocation context
based on a per message basis. Currently all messages forced to be
created under GFP_NOFS context.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
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This patch allows to give the use control about the allocation context
based on a per message basis. Currently all messages forced to be
created under GFP_NOFS context.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fd: dlm: trace send/recv of dlm message and rcom</title>
<updated>2022-11-08T18:59:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Aring</name>
<email>aahringo@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-27T20:45:15+00:00</published>
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This patch adds tracepoints for send and recv cases of dlm messages and
dlm rcom messages. In case of send and dlm message we add the dlm rsb
resource name this dlm messages belongs to. This has the advantage to
follow dlm messages on a per lock basis. In case of recv message the
resource name can be extracted by follow the send message sequence
number.

The dlm message DLM_MSG_PURGE doesn't belong to a lock request and will
not set the resource name in a dlm_message trace. The same for all rcom
messages.

There is additional handling required for this debugging functionality
which is tried to be small as possible. Also the midcomms layer gets
aware of lock resource names, for now this is required to make a
connection between sequence number and lock resource names. It is for
debugging purpose only.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
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This patch adds tracepoints for send and recv cases of dlm messages and
dlm rcom messages. In case of send and dlm message we add the dlm rsb
resource name this dlm messages belongs to. This has the advantage to
follow dlm messages on a per lock basis. In case of recv message the
resource name can be extracted by follow the send message sequence
number.

The dlm message DLM_MSG_PURGE doesn't belong to a lock request and will
not set the resource name in a dlm_message trace. The same for all rcom
messages.

There is additional handling required for this debugging functionality
which is tried to be small as possible. Also the midcomms layer gets
aware of lock resource names, for now this is required to make a
connection between sequence number and lock resource names. It is for
debugging purpose only.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: dlm: use packet in dlm_mhandle</title>
<updated>2022-11-08T18:59:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Aring</name>
<email>aahringo@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-27T20:45:14+00:00</published>
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To allow more than just dereferencing the inner header we directly point
to the inner dlm packet which allows us to dereference the header, rcom
or message structure.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
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To allow more than just dereferencing the inner header we directly point
to the inner dlm packet which allows us to dereference the header, rcom
or message structure.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dlm: check required context while close</title>
<updated>2022-04-06T19:03:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Aring</name>
<email>aahringo@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-04T20:06:46+00:00</published>
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This patch adds a WARN_ON() check to validate the right context while
dlm_midcomms_close() is called. Even before commit 489d8e559c65
("fs: dlm: add reliable connection if reconnect") in this context
dlm_lowcomms_close() flushes all ongoing transmission triggered by dlm
application stack. If we do that, it's required that no new message will
be triggered by the dlm application stack. The function
dlm_midcomms_close() is not called often so we can check if all
lockspaces are in such context.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
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This patch adds a WARN_ON() check to validate the right context while
dlm_midcomms_close() is called. Even before commit 489d8e559c65
("fs: dlm: add reliable connection if reconnect") in this context
dlm_lowcomms_close() flushes all ongoing transmission triggered by dlm
application stack. If we do that, it's required that no new message will
be triggered by the dlm application stack. The function
dlm_midcomms_close() is not called often so we can check if all
lockspaces are in such context.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dlm: move conversion to compile time</title>
<updated>2022-04-06T19:02:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Aring</name>
<email>aahringo@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-04T20:06:42+00:00</published>
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This patch is a cleanup to move the byte order conversion to compile
time. In a simple comparison like this it's possible to move it to
static values so the compiler will always convert those values at
compile time.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
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This patch is a cleanup to move the byte order conversion to compile
time. In a simple comparison like this it's possible to move it to
static values so the compiler will always convert those values at
compile time.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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